A Methodist preacher preaching to an open-air congregation with a cloth in one hand, two women preparing to steal a pair of shoes in the midst of the crowd, various people looking on including an apple seller with a cart, a ballad seller with a baby on her back, two Jews, fashionable ladies and gentlemen, a man getting his pocket picked, dogs, and a group of boys with a figure formed of a chimney brush. In the distance, people walk on the field, a figure flying a kite behind, rows of houses in the background; an inn with a sign with a fox to the right and the Palladian facade of St. Luke's Hospital beyond
Description:
Title engraved below image., Probably dates from 1765, the year in which Griffiths exhibited 'Enthusiam Displayed in the character of a Methodist preacher and his congregation in Moorfields' at the Free Society; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,0812.1600., and Matted to 51 x 61 cm.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, & sold by the proprietor John Griffiths, Chief Porter of the Middle Temple, opposite the General Post Office, Middle Temple Lane, & the print shops &c.
Subject (Name):
St. Luke's Hospital (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Preaching, Audiences, Carts & wagons, Dogs, Kites (Toys), Pickpockets, Street vendors, and Taverns (Inns)
"View of the western side of one of the large galleries occupied by females, in the hospital in Old Street, London; women patients occupy the space in various states of distress; a few nurses work on the few beds laid out; a man stands in right corner inspecting the scene."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Saint Luke's Hospital
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 121., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 77., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, interior -- Patients, psychiatric., 1 print : aquatint with etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.3 x 27.5 cm., and Plate number erased from upper right corner of sheet?
Publisher:
Pub. Augt. 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Great Britain., England, and London.
"View of the western side of one of the large galleries occupied by females, in the hospital in Old Street, London; women patients occupy the space in various states of distress; a few nurses work on the few beds laid out; a man stands in right corner inspecting the scene."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Saint Luke's Hospital
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 121., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 77., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, interior -- Patients, psychiatric.
Publisher:
Pub. Augt. 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Great Britain., England, and London.
